The Michelin Club

Trivet

2 star Michelin Restaurant in Bermondsey, London

Head Chef: Jonny Lake

Food: Modern British

Date visited: 29/06-2024

Total Bill:  £1032.13 (including service charge)

Menu:

At Trivet we only had the choice to pick from the A La Carte menu - so all 4 members in the Michelin Club went for 3 courses + 1 shared cheese board. The following dishes were served:

Starters:

1 x Risotto ‘Il Maestro’, Petals of red gurnard and confit fennel
1 x Cornish wild sea bass crudo, Capezzana olive oil, lime and trombetta courgette
2 x Drunk lobster, Trivet noodles
Side Dish:
1 x Coombeshead Farm sourdough and Trivet focaccia, With homemade kefir cultured salted butter

Mains:

1 x Chicken with a vinegar sauce, Poached and roasted organic white chicken breast and spring greens
1 x Turbot ‘Picchio Pacchio’, Grilled Cornish turbot, tomatoes, pickled shimeji and borlotti beans
2 x Not a Cripsy Duck

Side Dishes:

1 x Bitter leaves, tamarillo, fermented tomato and parmesan
2 x Cornish Earlies potatoes, broad beans, seaweed and lovage

Desserts:

1 x Cheeses: Picodon AOP (Drôme, France), Stracchino All’Antica (Lombardy, Italy), Alex (Allgau, Germany), Lanark Blue (Lanarkshire, Scotland), Brun De Noix (Machecoul, France) - With rye and caraway crackers, tamarillo and rhubarb chutney

1 x Chocolate and coffee tart, Dark and milk chocolate from Nicolas Berger, white chocolate and coffee ganache, hazelnut and almond praline and white coffee gelato
1 x ‘Hokkaido Potato’, Baked potato mille-feuille, saké and white chocolate mousse, butter and saké gelato
2 x Trivet Baba, Coconut, passionfruit and apple marigold (but we didn't like this one - so got send out and we didn't get charged for it).

Wine:

We had a great Wine experience with excellent help from the Sommelier to pick some different wines - so had the following:

White: Marjan Simčič Ribolla Classic 2022 (Slovenia).

Red: Xinomavro 'Alta' Naoussa, Thymiopoulos 2021 (Greece).

Dessert: 1/2 Domaine de Rancy 1992 (France) and 1/2 Chateau de Plaisance Chenin Blanc 2018 (France)

Extras:

Furthermore we got 1 taster before dinner and 2 tasters after dinner. We also got a very interesting chat and picture with the Head Chef - who used to be the Head Chef for the Fat Duck - just outside the open Kitchen at the end of the night.

Link to the restaurant: https://trivetrestaurant.co.uk/

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